BWF World Tour finals, Guangzhou, China

[Sin Hombre]

Looks like Sameer should have won in straights with correct umpiring.

[sameerph]

Sindhu wins the first game 21-19 against Okukara.

She has a big lead at 14-7 but Okuhara fought back to level it at 16-16. Thankfully, Sindhu kept her nerves to close out the first game.

[suresh]

Looks like Sameer should have won in straights with correct umpiring.

What was the issue with umpiring?

Suresh

[sameerph]

Looks like Sameer should have won in straights with correct umpiring.

What was the issue with umpiring?

Suresh

From this report-

BWF World Tour Finals 2018

For his pulsating triumph in an hour and eight minutes, Shi should thank his stars and the chair umpire, who failed to pull him up for a blatant infringement at the net, a couple of points before the match went into the extra-points duel in the second game. In response to a tight backhand crosscourt drop shot by Verma, the Chinese player whipped the shuttle down, with his racket head crossing the tape by a few inches.

[suresh]

Finally!! Sindhu wins a major final.

[sameerph]

Yes, finally he breaks her silver jinx here.

[F] Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,6) d. Nozhomi Okuhara (JPN,5) 21-19 21-17

First Indian to win the BWF final title.

[ornatebrute]

Probably the biggest badminton title to be won?

[Sin Hombre]

Congrats Sindhu!

Hope she can keep this big tournament form going for another 2 years.

[Sin Hombre]

Probably the biggest badminton title to be won?

Not even close.

Olympics Gold >>> BWF World championship >> Asian Games gold > BWF WTF finals ~> All England = China Open

[ornatebrute]

I meant biggest title won by an Indian^. I am not sure if others have won gold in the aforementioned categories before. Also I feel BWF World Tour Finals may be a bigger title than Asian Gold atleast in WS just because you can't ignore Carolina Marin, Baizwan Zheng, Michelle Li.

[jaydeep]

Yes, at last she breaks the Silver jinx ... And turned the 2018 into her best year performance-wise with this Gold medal.

Gold - World Tour Grand Finals
Silver - World Championships
Silver - Asian Games
Silver - Commonwealth Games

[jayakris]

Good to see her winning the gold. Hopefully it removes a little bit of the mental jinx in the finals, and she will do better in the finals of the bigger events that count more, like Olympics and Asiad.

[ssp]

Well deserved title after a brilliant year.